Upper Macungie Zoners Approve Four Requests

March 28, 1985|The Morning Call

Upper Macungie's zoners approved appeals for two variances and an equal number of special exception uses during a routine meeting last night.

Keith Malcolm, president of Semmel Excavating, Allentown, was granted a special exception to establish outside storage for industrial use at a property on the west side of Springside Court, west of Schantz Road in a employment center zone.

Malcolm plans to construct office and garage space for his business atthe 2.89-acre site and requested the special exception to store trucks on an area covering 10 percent of the tract.

The zoning code mandates outdoor storage space be held to 50 percent of building coverage, which would have restricted Malcolm to an area covering 2.2 percent of the tract. The building will occupy 4.47 percent of the acreage.

Plans for the project show a startup storage area covering 7.16 percent of the tract, but Malcolm requested 10 percent to accommodate future growth.

William Handy's appeal for a special exception to expand a nonconforming use at a property at the northwest corner of Main and Church streets, Fogelsville, was also granted.

Handy plans to add one apartment unit to the five now on his property by converting a former store front into a two-bedroom unit. The property is zoned neighborhood commercial.

Variances were also granted to Raymond Faust of Trexlertown and to Peter and Susan Anthony of Breinigsville R.1.

Faust requested a variance from minimum lot size so he can change the configuration of three existing lots on the west side of Route 100, south of Route 222, in a "living environment semi-urban" district.

Two residential tracts front a third, which houses a hauling business Faust recently sold to his son. He requested the variance to separate the residential areas from the business so they can be sold.

William Mayo, who owns property to the rear of the Faust tract, sent a letter to the board objecting to the variance on the grounds it would "perpetuate a nonconforming use in a residential area." Faust has operated his business from the tract since 1958.

A variance from front yard setback requirements was granted to Peter and Susan Anthony to construct an addition to their home on the east side of Adams Road, north of Schantz Road in a "living environment-rural residential" zone.